Don't Breathe a Word by Holly Cupala Review

Synopsis:
Joy delamere is suffocating.
From asthma, from her parents, and from her boyfriend, Asher, who is smothering her from the inside out. She can take his cruel words, his tender words . . . until the night they go too far.
To escape, Joy sacrifices her suburban life to find the one who offered his help, a homeless boy called Creed. He introduces her to a world of fierce loyalty, to its rules of survival, and to love—a world she won’t easily let go.
Set against the backdrop of the streets of Seattle, Holly Cupala’s power­ful new novel explores the subtleties of abuse, the secrets we keep, and the ways to redemption. But above all, it is an unflinching story about the extraordinary lengths one girl will go to discover her own strength.

My Thoughts:

Don't Breathe a Word is a powerful, emotional novel, that took me on an incredible journey through the depths that one girl would go to escape, and what it truly means to feel alive. I absolutely loved everything about this book. I was swept away with Joy's story. I really felt her heartbreak as she left behind her family to escape an abusive relationship. I understood each of her motives, why she was doing what she was doing, and making the decisions she did for herself.

As she begins to live her life on the streets, and starts to see and experience things she never seen before, she discovers that she is so much stronger than she ever imagined she could be. When she meets back up with Creed, the boy she has only ran into once before, and they begin to fall in love, their story is both heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time.

Holly Cupala absolutely blew me away with her first book, TELL ME A SECRET, and she has taken my breath away with DON'T BREATHE A WORD. Don't Breathe a Word has continued to stick with me long after finishing it, and I'm sure it will be making the list of favorite books of the year. I can't wait to see what Holly Cupala has in store for us next.

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I loved this one as well, Holly just took such a sad thing and made it into a very powerful book. I can't wait to go back and read her first book and for her future books that she is writing. She is certainly an author that I'm going to watch out for.